How reducing or remixing functionality could be a step forward.
The other day we discussed how certain functionality is standard in some media environments, and not in others. Imagine having a mobile phone without the possibility to put it in silent mode? It would severely impair your experience of the phone as you couldn't bring it to places where such an interruption would be a problem. Unless you turn the phone off of course, but then you lose the whole point of having it.
